Current Events that Relate to History
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ArgumentLearning Civics from History
Civic thought and leadership institutes will thrive if they promote strong scholarship and courses in traditional fields the mainstream academy slights.Law & Liberty -
Book ReviewA Book That Puts the Life Back Into Biography
To capture the spirit of the poet Audre Lorde, Alexis Pauline Gumbs decided to break all the rules.The Atlantic -
AntecedentRussia’s First Secret Influence Campaign: Convincing the U.S. to Buy Alaska
Russia has been peddling influence for a long time, using a playbook that it still uses today.Politico Magazine -
BiographyBattle Hymns
Charles Ives and the Civil War.The American Scholar -
DispatchA Picture-Book Guide to Maine
Children’s stories set on the coast suggest a wilder way of life.The New Yorker -
Antecedent
Black Church Leaders Brought Religion to Politics in the ‘60s
But unlike today's white Christian nationalism, Black church leaders called for healing internal divisions through engagement.The Conversation -
exhibitKidding Around
Stories of American children at work and play.
History and Current Events
From the HNN Archive
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The Forebears of JD Vance and the New Right
Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past. -
Overexposed
What happened to privacy when Americans gained easy access to cameras in the Gilded Age? -
An Early Case of Impostor Syndrome
Why were so many medieval books laden with self-deprecation? Blame genre conventions. -
Books That Speak of Books
How a subgenre of murder mysteries plays with the way real history is written. -
Access Denied
When the British government opened its archives to historians — and started relying less on the past for its own business. -
Mastering the Art of Reading an Old Recipe
For every moment of historical significance, there is a figure — often hidden — who fed the figures we do remember.